Figures about Extrasolar Planets
and related subjects

©,1998   Jean Schneider
Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon, France

from the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia


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  1. Facts about planets and (proto)planetary systems.
    1. Individual systems
      See individual pages in the Catalog

    2. Global views and statistics
      1. Orbits and Masses of Extrasolar Planets (Marcy et al)
      2. Mass histogram (Marcy et al)
      3. Orbital Eccentricity vs Orbital Size (Marcy et al)
      4. Distance of planetary systems from the Sun (ESO)
      5. Position in the sky:
        1. They are everywhere (Korzennick)

  2. Methodologies, instruments and projects.
    1. Principles of detection methods
      1. Diagram of methods (pdf; M. Perryman)
      2. Capabilities of Various Planet Detection Methods. (Borucki et al.)
      3. Wobble of a star (Marcy)
      4. Astrometry: Astrometric displacement of the Sun due to Jupiter as seen from 10 pc (Shao et al.)
      5. Imaging:
        1. Dark speckles:
          2-D simulations (Boccaletti et al.)
        2. Nulling (Bracewell interferometetric coronograph):
          Principle of nulling (Ollivier)
          Principle of nulling (Schneider)
          Results on alf Tau (Hinz et al.)
        3. Interferential Coronography (CIA)
          Principle of CIA - 1 (Baudoz et al.)
          Principle of CIA - 2 (Baudoz et al.)
      6. Transits
        1. Light curve of a transit (Deeg)
        2. Light-curve of a star as a planet transits. (Esquerdo et al)
        3. Variation of the transit depth with stellar and planet size (Esquerdo et al)
      7. Lensing. Various figures (Sackett)
    2. Spacecrafts
      1. GAIA:
        Domain of exploration in the Galaxy (Perryman et al.)
        GAIA gallery (Perryman et al.)
      2. Viewgraphs of IRSI/DARWIN Several figures (Penny et al.)
      3. Kepler (Borucki et al.)
      4. JWGST
        1. Design overview
      5. SIM viewgraphs Several figures (Shao et al.)
      6. TPF
        1. Structure concepts (Beichman et al.)

  3. Theory and simulations
    1. Atmospheres
      1. Flux vs. wavelength curve for giant planets (M. Marley)
      2. Cometary tails of close giant planets (Schneider and Sekulic)
      3. Reflection on a close-in planet (animation; Rouan)
    2. Disc-planet interaction, orbital migration...
      1. FARGO 2-D polar hydro code for disk planet tidal interactions. (F. Masset)
      2. Different cases of migration (Masset)
      3. Forming a 51 Peg (Lin, Bodenheimer, Richardson)
      4. Disk-planet interaction: small planets before gap opening (Artymowicz)
      5. Disk-planet interaction: gap opening by planets (Artymowicz)
      6. Disk-planet interaction: massive planets and superplanets (Artymowicz)
      7. Gaps with spiral shocks and gas flow onto the planet Various pictures (Artymowicz, Kley)
      8. Mass flow through the gap and close up (Kley, Artymowicz)
      9. Mass Flow and Accretion through Gaps in Accretion Discs various figures and movie (Kley)
      10. movie of onset of gap formation (Kley)
      11. Accretion onto protoplanet several figures (Kley)
      12. Gas flow around and onto the planet.Various pictures (Seibert and Lubow)
      13. Eccentricity evolution: disks circularize small planets, deform orbits of superplanets (Artymowicz, Lubow, Kley)
      14. Orbital migration: summary of results. Various pictures (Bryden, Lin, Papaloizou, Ward)
      15. Gap in a disc produced by a planet (Bryden)
    3. Habitable Zones
      1. Habitable stable orbits (for 4 known systems, Jones et al 2001)

    4. Imagination
      1. Graphics on extrasolar planets (Cook)
      2. Extrasolar visions (Whatmough)
      3. The planetary system around PSR1257+12 as seen from one of its planets (Wolszczan).

    5. People.
      1. Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy
      2. Geoff Marcy
      3. Mayor and Queloz

    Acknowledgements
    I am grateful to the authors of these figures for rendering this page possible and especially to Pawel Artymowicz for discussions.


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